Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, October 27

• Lightfoot defends proposal to fine drivers going 6 mph over limit as a safety measure (Tribune)
• 1 dead, 17 inured in western Illinois after hayride driver sends trailer into a ravine (ABC)
• SUV driver hits side of Cook County jail, is in serious condition (CBS)
• Driver crashes into Tinley Park home, car bursts into flames (NBC)
• Paintball attack leaves CTA bus driver injured in Chatham (CBS)
• Plan to turn shuttered Englewood school into housing calls for reopening Racine stop (Sun-Times)
• Almost 2,700 homes planned for Moody Bible site, near Chicago Ave. Brown stop (Crain's)
• Pedestrian bridge over Fox River in Aurora now set to open in the spring (Tribune)

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